In memory of the great mystic
Neville Goddard
1905 to 1972
"Capture the feeling associated with your realized desire by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of the thing you desire."
Neville Goddard was one of the most quietly influential teachers of the twentieth century. Born in Barbados in 1905 as the fourth of ten children, he moved to New York at seventeen, first pursuing a career as a dancer, before his meeting with his teacher, an Ethiopian rabbi named Abdullah, changed the direction of his life. He spent the following decades lecturing in packed halls in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco on a single idea: imagination creates reality, and an assumption, persisted in, hardens into fact.
He explained the mechanics of the mind in the most practical, direct language he could find, free of the heavy dogmas of his time. No rituals, no intermediaries. Just a psychology of the imagination that anyone could test for themselves, tonight, in their own bed. He also gave his lectures openly and let them be recorded and shared, which is why so much of his work survives today.
Learning more about Neville
A large, dedicated community has preserved and organized Neville's work over the decades, and we gladly point you to it. These are trusted places to read his original books and lectures:
- FreeNeville.com hosts a large archive of lectures, transcripts, and stories from Neville's life.
- RealNeville.com collects full-text transcriptions of hundreds of his lectures.
- Wikipedia: Neville Goddard for a factual overview of his life and published works.
Why this platform exists
Neville's teaching lives on in wonderful books, lecture recordings, transcript archives, and active communities, and this platform stands gratefully on all of that work. What we felt we could add is a structure: a single path where a complete beginner can start at lesson one and walk through the Law of Assumption step by step, module by module, with practice built in at every stage, the way the world learns languages, mathematics, and code.
Neville always looked for the most practical, direct way to explain the mechanics of the mind. We like to think that if he were teaching in this era, he would have welcomed a format like this. AssumeSchool simply tries to carry his spirit into a new medium, with his own words present in every lesson and explained in plain language beside them.
Because Neville shared his lectures openly with the world, this platform follows his example. The curriculum is written by a practitioner who has walked this path for years, and it blends Neville's own words with lived experience and plain, modern explanation. You can read the founder's story here.